Despite provincial ban, Medan allows Christmas celebrations


The season to be jolly: A man decorating a Christmas tree with masks and hand sanitisers at a church in Surabaya. — Reuters

The Medan administration in North Sumatra will proceed with Christmas and New Year celebrations while urging residents to avoid crowds despite a prohibition against crowd-pulling events from the provincial administration to curb soaring Covid-19 cases.

Medan administration official Renward Parapat, representing the city’s acting mayor Akhyar Nasution in a cross-sectoral meeting on the year-end holidays on Thursday, said the administration would help ensure that Christmas and New Year celebrations in the city would run smoothly and safely.

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